Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-21
FARM AND STOCK NOTES.

No other cereal crop has for $50 years
been so free from injury by insect pest as
corn.
Seven-tenths Of the dry portion OF corn
is pure starch. and starch forms about
four-fifths of all human food.
Beets have been raised for SO 80 ton.
Mechanical methods in their cultivation
should reduce the cost still lower.
In Iowa 955 women own and direct
farms, Is manage stock farms, own
green houses and 80 manage market gar
dens.
Farmers would find it to their advan-
tage to corn mutton in weak brine for
home consumption. The hams can be
smoked and used like dried beef or they
can be boiled. The corned mutton will
be found an agreeable change from sau-
sage and spare ribs.
When purchasing pure-bred stock give
the preference to those breeds best adart-
ed to the soil. climate and facilities of the
farm. 1t will not 90 to suddenly transfer
an animal from luXuriant pasture to q
barren hillside. Good breeding Is import
ant, but the best of breeds will fail to give
satisfaction;unless kept under proper con-
ditions.
The supposition that no labor is re-
quired in Bookkeeping has done more to
cause failure than anything else. 1t re-
quires close attention to grade the honey
and an experienced bee-keeper will grow
Towering plants for his bees as we'll as
devote time to the swarming, wintering
and Strengthening of the colonies.
1t requires practice and close attention
to all the details in order to produce two.
tubs of butter alike in quality. A change
in the kind Of food given the cows will
alter the character Of the product, as may
be noticed when wild onions are eaten.
The most careful consideration should be
given the feed and next the cleanliness OF
the stalls.
To feed an animal only that quantity OF
food necessary TO prevent it from losing
flesh is a waste OF time. The aim should
be to secure an increase every day. 1t is
of no advantage to have an animal pass
through the winter and come out in the
spring in the same condition it was in the
TALL. The winter is the proper time to get
the stock fat.
1t is claimed that 400 pounds of butter
per annum is the average for Jersey cows:
but this is high estimate, considering
the neglect given them on some farms.
The cows do not average more than 800
milking days in the year, and to produce
400 pounds Of butter every year calls for
q product OF nearly pounds of butter per
week for each cow.
The Dorking is now receiving some at.
tention as market fowl. In this country
1t has been somewhat overlooked, hut in
England 1t IL regarded as the best of all
breeds for market and the table. Crossed
on Brahma hens, the Dorking produces
fine broilers, the largest capons and an
excellent general-purpose fowl, as the
crossed fowl lays better than either par
ent.
The young lambs should be carefully
sheltered. The ewes should be lambing
this month and, IL the lambs are to grow
rapidly, the dams must be we'll fed so as
to provide plenty of milk. A ration,
twice day, OF oats, Is the best grain for
them, but they should have all the hay
and fresh water they desire. See that the
lambs take the teats as soon as they are
born or there may be danger of milk fever
Prof. j. Hayes Panton, OF the Agricul-
tural College Of Ontario, suggests reme-
dies for potato rot which we condense as
follows: Dig as soon as brown spots ap-
pear. Put in cool, dry place after dig
ging. Grow early varieties. Burn all
affected stalks. Use only good seed. Get
seed from unaffected districts. Don't
plant in a field in which rot occurred the
previous year. Avoid planting upon
heavy clay soil, but prefer light and dry
one.
Although the hogs are more sensitive
TO cold than other domestic animals, yet
they receive less protection during win
ter. The most important requisite In a
pig-sty is dryness. The accumulations
Of slush and manure usually found in
some pens are fruitful causes OF cholera
and other diseases, and 1t is a practice TO
pour corn into such pens, one. half of
which is wasted. Better treatment OF the
hogs would insure greater weigh. on
smaller proportion Of food.
Hay-caps are made OF 54-inch heavy
sheeting cut into squares and bound with
a strong cord, making II loop three or four
inches long at each corner. The cloth
may be water-proofed very cheaply by
stepping it in solution Of alum and
thereafter drying 1t first in a solution OF
sugar OF lead or the cloth may be dipped
IN boiled linseed oil and then hung out TO
dry. The caps are used to cover haycocks,
and are fastened down by pins put through
the loops and pushed into the hay.
Many farmers place great stress on the
power OF clover TO restore the fertility Of
the soil. IL does this by taking carbon